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A view of a small log building with an unidentified young man standing by the front door. Perhaps taken at the Charles Thayer vacation home in Bavaria. Original 35mm negative.

Full view of a small log building with what appears to be a child and a dog standing by the front door. Perhaps taken at the Charles Thayer vacation home in Bavaria. Original 35mm negative.

View of the new United States Court Building at the cornerstone laying ceremony in Washington, D.C.

Setting the cornerstone in place at the ceremony for the new United States Court Building in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Reparations Mission members in Room 233 of their office building in the Dai Ichi Building in Tokyo, Japan. Edwin Pauley pictured front and center. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors.)

Dai Ichi building, office building of the U.S. Reparations Mission in Tokyo, Japan. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors.)

Top of an air-raid shelter in Berlin, Germany. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Building on a Pacific Island, identified as being either Guam, Johnston Island, or Kajalein. From album created by Allied Reparations Committee, headed by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, 1945-47.

Building, possibly a barracks, on island identified in album as Guam, Johnston Island, or Kwajalein. It is unknown which of these three islands is in this picture. From album created by Allied Reparations Committee, headed by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, 1945-47.

Changchun, Manchuria, notice posted at entrance to Continental Institute for Science by Soviets, stating: "Notice - the Chinese Army is on guard here. Entrance for inspection forbidden; Northeastern Unit, 13 February 1946." Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-1947 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).